The high-def digital film of Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by and starring Brian Bedford, gets its first screenings starting June 2.

Brian Bedford
Photo by Joan Marcus

"The Importance of Being Earnest: Live in HD" screens across the U.S. and internationally June 2-28. Digitally equipped movie theatres and performing arts centers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico and throughout Europe are hosting the special screenings. The June 2 showings are in 16 states, including New York, Pennysylvania, Washington, California, Michigan, Colorado, Massachusetts, Maine, Florida, Vermont, Rhode Island and more. See the complete list below.

In addition to the complete play, the screening will also include a backstage tour hosted by Tony winner David Hyde Pierce. Alfred Molina and Oscar Wilde expert Michael Hackett will also discuss the writer and the man in an intermission special.

"The Importance of Being Earnest: Live in HD" was captured live in high-definition from Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre and features the original cast of this new Broadway production, including Dana Ivey as Miss Prism, Paxton Whitehead as Rev. Canon Chasuble, Santino Fontana as Algernon Moncrieff, David Furr as John Worthing, Tim MacDonald as Merriman, Paul O'Brien as Lane, Charlotte Parry as Cecily Cardew, Sara Topham as Gwendolen Fairfax and Amanda Leigh Cobb as Servant.